Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba

Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (28 July 1951-10 May 2019) was Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 4 February 2012 to 26 July 2014, succeeding Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and preceding Pedro Sanchez.

Biography
Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba was born in Solares, Cantabria, Spain in 1951, and he was raised in Madrid from the age of 3. He became a chemistry professor at Complutense University and represented Toledo in Congress from 1993 to 1996, Madrid from 1996 to 2004, Cantabria from 2004 to 2008, Cadiz from 2008 to 2011, and Madrid from 2011 to 2014. He gained popularity due to his advocacy for negotiations with ETA, which ultimately ended in a 2011 peace agreement. In 2012, after 2011's disastrous electoral defeat for the PSOE, Perez Rubalcaba became the new Secretary General of the PSOE. Due to the party's bad results in the 2014 European Parliament election, Perez Rubalcaba stepped down as PSOE Secretary General, and he died of a stroke in 2019 at the age of 67.